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Bryan Lamkin back at Adobe

In February 2013, Bryan Lamkin rejoined Adobe after previously serving for 14 years. After initially taking on corporate development, including strategy and mergers and acquisitions, he now also heads Adobe’s cross-company technology and design initiatives.

Breakthrough innovation

Tell an Image What to Do

Our Adobe Research team contains some of the most brilliant computer scientists anywhere. And one of the coolest innovations we’ve put into the “light of day” recently is a breakthrough called PixelTone. In a nutshell, PixelTone will allow a creative to tell an image what to do.

In collaboration with the University of Michigan, we’ve invented a way for people to use natural language to make the image editing process easier and more natural than using gesture or mouse clicks. For example, pointing to part of the image, saying “This is a shirt, make the shirt red,” or “make it brighter here” could become the new workflow. That is absolutely amazing.

While this innovation isn’t available yet, it gives a glimpse of some of what our rockstar scientists are up to (most of which we can’t talk about yet!). Read this article from our senior principal scientist Gregg Wilensky with a lot more of the details of how PixelTone works.